Anne Frank Remembered JE# 5

5 Comments:

• Now that Henk was leaving, I have a feeling their relationship is going to gradually drift away.
• Miep was now in charge of the business because she worked for Mr. Frank for a longer time.
• People at this time committed many crimes and got away with it. As long as you weren't a Jew, you got away with anything.
• They are lucky they didn't have to turn in their food to the Germans.
• Mr. Frank considered Miep as family because they spent many years together. 

4 Questions: 

• Didn't people ever wonder who she was working for? Why is she working for a man who disappeared? 
• What s the NSB?
• Could Miep do anything, knowing they committed a crime?
• Were Miep and Mr. Frank still in contact after they got caught?

3 Words: 

• Dium-sized (pg. 202):
• Jubilation (pg. 211): a feeling of or the expression of joy or exultation
• Rhine (pg. 221): A river of western Europe formed by the confluence of two tributaries in eastern Switzerland

2 Literary Terms: 

• Personification (pg. 198): "On the floor, amidst the chaos of papers and books"
• Figurative Language: (pg. 218) " We were deathly afraid..."

1 Sentence Summary: 

• The Franks and the rest of the hiding friends were caught and sent to concentration camps where everyone except Miep ended up dying. 

Anne Frank Remembered JE# 4

5 Comments:

• Anne's eyesight was beginning to fade.. she needed glasses.
• If a thief broke in and reported Jews in hiding, they were not prosecuted for their crime.
• Anne was beginning to understand the way life was going to be in hiding.
• Miep has a very high self-esteem.
• The red high heels were a symbol that signified she was becoming a young lady.

4 Questions:

• Why is it that only married couples can talk to each other by eyes?
• Is their anyway that Anne could have gotten her eyes checked than callin a doctor, who could possible saythey were in hiding?
• Why does Margot and Peter not talk much to Henk and Miep?
• Why didnt they want to tell any of their friends in hiding?

3 Words:

• commodity (pg.164):
• savored (pg. 186):
• fanatic (pg. 187):

2 Literary Terms:

• Figurative Language (pg. 169):"always it was a fight with stinging rain and slippert streets"
• Hyperbole (pg. 188): " US Twelfth Army had smashed the German Patton's Third Army"

1 Sentence Summary:

• The Frank family remain in hiding while thing begin to get a little more intense causing the "darker days".

Anne Frank Remembered JE# 3

5 Comments:

• Mr. Frank set a good trap leading people with the note he left in the apartment.
• They couldn't use the bathrooms during the day, or workers would hear from downstairs in the office.
• Jews believed that going into hiding for their beliefs was more valuable than a pot of gold.
• Jews were going into hiding for many different, but similar reasons.
• They didn't have basic neccessities for all, for example same chairs.

4 Questions:

• Were Henk and Miep now forced to take care of these children who were dropped off at her door in the middle of the night.
• Does this means that Henk and Miep wouldn't have enough time to have a baby of their own.
• Why does Mouschi keep getting mentioned throughout the book?
• Was Mr. Van Daan's jokes actuallu funny.

3 Words:

• alotted(pg. 108):
• temperamental(pg. 114):
• privy (pg. 117):

2 Literary Terms:

• Hyperbole ".. and diguise the bitter feeling that burned in my heart" (Pg. 117)
• Simile "the Jewish deportations as resettlement and claimed that those taken were being treated decently" (pg. 119)

1 Sentence Summary:

• The Frank family are continued to be in hiding while more people want to join, Henk and Miep get two gifts at their door early in the morning.

Anne Frank Remembered JE #2

5 Comments:

• Miep was having a strong compassion for Henk to the extent possibly getting married.
• The Radio and the newspaper was the only source of information Jews were receiving.
• Miep was very lucky throught the marriage process, many times she could have been caught and deported.
• The discrimination against Jews was becoming a struggle for both the Frank family and Miep.
• Even with the silence in the room, Miep could sense the feelings and emotions the Frank family was experiencing when they went into hiding.

4 Questions:

• Why did everything happen at once, the bad news however luckiness?
• How were Jew supposed to transport themselves? Not everthing required feet.
• If America was on the Jews side, why didn't they help them fight against Hitler?
• Was Mr. Frank expecting to one day go into hiding? Reason for already having the secret door room.

3 Words:

• Frivolity(pg. 55):
• Impoverization(pg. 80):
• Demoralized(pg. 86):

2 Literary Terms:

• Personification(pg.67) "dark wintee settled over us"
• Imagery(pg. 96): "We were soaked through to the skin"

1 Sentence Summary:

• Miep finally becomes a Dutch and become closer to the Frank family, she then had to help them in hiding when Margot receives a labor letter.

Anne Frank Remembered JE #1

5 Comments:

• She was adopted and never lived with her biological parents.
• This book is from the lady who helped the Frank family go into hiding.
• Miss Heel was very rude and jealous of Miep.
• Hitler was a man who was not only agaisnt Jews but those who were not Germans.
• Miep's Saturday trips to the theater was like our modern day trips to the movies.

4 Questions:

• Wasn't it a hard thing for her biological parents to just give her up at such a young age?
• Was she in love with the man that she previously worked with or the man she currently worked with?
• When does the Frank Family go into hiding?
• Why is Margot always explained as being pretty more than Anne is? What is it trying to imply?

3 Words:

• Melancholy(pg. 37): a gloomy state of mind
• Excursion (pg. 41): a short trip or outing to some place
• Depravity (pg. 43): the state of being depraved

2 Literary Terms:

• Imagery(pg. 21): " The horizon always flat and luminous, the winter sunreddish"
• Personification(pg. 33): "I always fly to work on my secondhand bicycle"

1 Sentence Sumary:

• Baascially Miep is introduced and her lifestyle is explained in detail, mentioning the things she went through based on the fact that she lived with adoptive parents.

Girl with a Pearl Earring by TC Movie

5 Comments:

• Overall the movie skipped some on the key important parts that the book had mentioned.
• Sometimes, the events did not happen in the exact same order.
• Some of the characters weren't described in the same detail.
• The ending was confusing because Griet looked the same and you couldn't tell that she was older.
• Tanneke didn't seems as mean as she was in the book.

4 Questions:

• Why did they eliminate key parts?
• What could they have done to improve the ending?
• Why was Cornelia such a brat?
• Was Johannes having micxed feelings about Griet?

6 Film Terms:

• Long shot - when Tanneke shows her the studio
• Over the shoulder - when Griet is cleaning windows and Johannes is by the door lookin [in darkness]
• Midshot - Griet & Johannes are at the window look at the clouds.
• Long shot & Zoom - When Griet is being painted with earring, just like the picture
• Establishing shot - when she left the house because Catharina had found out about her sneaking around
• Bird's Eye - gets to the center of town and has to decide where to go

1 Sentence Review:

• Overall, I think the movie was okay, it could have been better if only it inquired the main points and theme of the story.

Girl with a Pearl Earring by TC #5

5 Comments:

• I Can't stand Van Ruijven.
• Johannes didn't want to say anything to help Griet.
• I think Griet made the correct choice in marrying Pieter.
• After all those years Cornelia and her mother dipised Griet.
• Griet kept the 5 coins because she still had love for Johannes.
• It's about time Griet slapped Cornelia**Met her with a slap and left her with a slap**

4 Questions:

• Deos van Ruijven want to cause trouble?
• What was missing from the painting?
• What was so special about the pearl earring that Griet noticed?
• Where did Greit decide to go?
• Did Johannes committ suicide?

3 Words:

• Placate(pg.197): to appease or pacify
• Cumbersome(pg. 200): burdensome
• Tavern(pg 229): a place where liquors are sold to be consumed on the premises.

2 Literary Terms:

• Flashback(pg. 232): "I reached over and slapped her"
• Symbolism(pg. 233): " I would hide them somewhere that Pieter nd my sons would not look, some unexpected place that only I knew of. I would never spend them."

1 Sentence Summary:

• Griet is caught in the act, runs away.. 10 years later she starts a new life and it is finished when Catharina gives her the pearl earrings.